Mayor Mike Courts was raised in an Army family but has called the local area home since 1974, graduating from Clover Park SHS, Lakewood in 1977. Mike and Robbie are both retired Army officers and have been married since 1983.

They have two grown children, Ben and Samantha, living in Seattle and have two standard black and tan Dachshunds, Schatzi and Picabo, who live with them.